Interestingly, Le Roux added "Solotshi" to his name on his 2008 passport:

https://i.imgur.com/44I9wlL.jpeg

Solotshi/Satoshi.

Gotta love that the embassy stamp is in Comic Sans, it conveys a sense of true professionalism

Given his past it's hard to imagine Le Roux sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bitcoins, even from inside a federal prison.

Given his past it is easy to imagine his keys got misplaced while on the run or met with some kind of "unfortunate accident".

Pretty good incentive to say nothing isn't it?

Not really. He's already in his fifties and faces 20 years in US prison, and then he will probably be deported to the Philippines to spend the rest of his life in prison. I imagine if he had access to billions he would he would be paying mercenaries to bust him out.

You think mercenaries can be bought to 'bust' someone out of an American prison? That is such a ridiculous statement in so so many ways.

ADX Florence? Probably not. Fort Dix? Almost certainly if the price is right. It's more like a glorified summer camp than a prison.

I’ve read the various write ups, and iirc the New Yorker piece and who/the group they pointed and a write up on Len seemed to make the most sense. Fun area, been a while since I dug into it.

Very few projects are created truly anonymously. I believe the Bitcoin creator had a real motive to stay anonymous, and a practical use case that was driving him to make Bitcoin eg transferring large amounts of illegitimate wealth internationally and outside of the banking system.

there’s pretty clear documentation on the motivations for why it was made, but I suppose it could be duplicitous and hard to ever verify one way or the other unless SN wallets became active again.

Eh, you could say everyone involved with Bitcoin was 'duplicitous' then because everyone knew the potential criminal use cases from the beginning.